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In 2015, the Pune Municipal Corporation, then run by Nationalist Congress Party, invited bids to clean up and “rejuvenate” the polluted Mula and Mutha rivers. The riverfront development project, the PMC said, would cut the risk of flooding in the rivers and beautify stretches of their banks totalling 44 km.…

 The district administration said 18 municipal wards and more than 80 villages have been affected by the floods in Ganga and its tributary Varuna in the district.

He will remain at Naini prison in Allahabad as other cases are still pending against him

In August 2021, the woman, along with her friend and witness in the case, died after self-immolation outside the Supreme Court in Delhi

The UP Govt had transferred as many as 13 IAS officers including Kaushal Raj Sharma, who was shifted from Varanasi to Prayagraj as commissioner. Read more on Dynamite News:

"The matter is between Hindu-Muslim brothers of Banaras and there is no need to make it national issue," a Varanasi resident said

Special Bench did not act on plea of mosque caretakers to first decide correctness of local court’s order to appoint advocate commissioner

4 of five plaintiffs conclude submissions opposing Masjid panel’s plea

Under this initiative, each year, a city of the cultural heritage of a member country that will take over the rotating Presidency of the organisation will get the title to highlight its prominence.